Families in Puerto Rico only qualify for the Child Tax Credit if they have three or more children. Several bipartisan efforts are underway to extend this to families with one or two children, a crucial support for working families still recovering from the devastation of Hurricane Maria. This move will benefit more than 350,000 families and 440,000 children. Please take a moment to urge your Members of Congress to support extending the Child Tax Credit.
ACT NOW by signing this alert: https://forumfyi.quorum.us/campaign/13326/

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At night, a satellite's view of Earth lights up in bright strings of roads dotted with pearl-like cities and towns as humans take center stage in artificial light. In Puerto Rico, during Hurricane Maria, the entire island's lights went out.
In the days, weeks, and months that followed, research physical scientist Miguel Roman at NASA's Goddard Space FlightCenter in Greenbelt, Maryland, and his colleagues combined NASA's BlackMarble night lights data product from the NASA/NOAA Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership satellite with USGS-NASA Landsat data and Google's OpenStreetMap to develop a neighborhood-scale map of energy use in communities across Puerto Rico as the electricity grid was slowly restored. They then analyzed the relationship between restoration rates in terms of days without electricity and the remoteness of communities from major cities.
Read more: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2018/nasa-provides-new-look-at-puerto-rico-post-hurricane-maria
This video is public domain and along with other supporting visualizations can be downloaded from the Scientific VisualizationStudio at: http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12616
Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Matthew Radcliff
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In September 2017, Hurricane Maria struck Puerto Rico head-on as a Category 4 storm with winds topping 155 miles per hour. The storm damaged homes, flooded towns, devastated the island's forests and caused the longest electricity black-out in U.S. history.
Hurricane Maria's lashing rain and winds transformed Puerto Rico's lush tropical rainforest landscape. Research scientistDoug Morton of Goddard was part of the team of NASA researchers who had surveyed Puerto Rico's forests six months before the storm with Goddard's Lidar, Hyperspectral, and Thermal (G-LiHT) AirborneImager, a system designed to study the structure and species composition of Puerto Rican forests. Shooting 600,000 laser pulses per second, G-LiHT produces a 3D view of the forest structure in high resolution. In April 2018, post-Maria , they went back and surveyed the same tracks as in 2017.
Comparing the before and after data, the team found that 40 to 60 percent of the tall trees that formed the canopy of the forest either lost large branches, were snapped in half or were uprooted by strong winds.
"Maria gave the island's forests a haircut," said Morton. "The island lost so many large trees that forests were shortened by one-third. We basically saw 60 years' worth of what we would consider natural treefall disturbances happen in one day."
Read more: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2018/nasa-provides-new-look-at-puerto-rico-post-hurricane-maria
This video is public domain and along with other supporting visualizations can be downloaded from the Scientific VisualizationStudio at: http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12590
Credit: NASA's Goddard Space FlightCenter/Matthew Radcliff
Music: Letting the Past Go, by Ben Hales [PRS], Matt Hales [PRS]
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Puerto Rico

Puerto Rico (English /ˌpɔːrtəˈriːkoʊ/ or /ˌpwɛərtəˈriːkoʊ/;Spanish:[ˈpweɾto ˈriko], locally also[ˈpwelto ˈχiko; ˈʀ̥iko]), officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico (Spanish:Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, literally the "Free Associated State of Puerto Rico"), is a United Statesterritory located in the northeastern Caribbean. Puerto Rico is an archipelago that includes the main island of Puerto Rico and a number of smaller islands. The capital and largest city is San Juan. The territory does not observe daylight saving time, and its official languages are Spanish, which is predominant, and English. The island's population is approximately 3.4 million.

Puerto Rico's rich history, tropical climate, diverse natural scenery, renowned traditional cuisine and attractive tax incentives make it a popular destination for visitors from around the world. Its location in the Caribbean, combined with centuries of colonization and subsequent migration, has made Puerto Rican culture a distinct melting pot of Amerindian, Spanish, African, and North American influences.

Puerto Rico can be played by three to five players, although an official two player variant also exists. There is an official expansion which adds new buildings that can be swapped in for or used along with those in the original game. In February 2004, Andreas Seyfarth released a separate card game called San Juan based on Puerto Rico and published by the same companies. Puerto Rico is one of the highest rated games on BoardGameGeek.

Gameplay

Each player uses a separate small board with spaces for city buildings, plantations, and resources. Shared between the players are three ships, a trading house, and a supply of resources and doubloons (money).

See also

Hurricane Maria (2005)

Hurricane Maria was a hurricane which formed in September2005 during the annual hurricane season. Maria was the thirteenth named storm, sixth hurricane, and fourth major hurricane of the record-breaking season. Hurricane Maria formed in the central Atlantic on September 1 and tracked to the northwest, strengthening as it moved over warm waters. The storm reached its peak strength on September 5 east of Bermuda and gradually weakened before becoming extratropical on September 10. Hurricane Maria did not affect any land as a tropical system, but it brought tropical storm-force winds to Iceland as an extratropical cyclone and produced heavy rain and three fatalities in Norway.

Meteorological history

A powerful tropical wave moved off the coast of Africa on August 27. As it moved west into the Atlantic, it became more organized and the system developed into Tropical Depression Fourteen about midway between Cape Verde and the Lesser Antilles on September 1. Shear from an upper-level low to the southwest slowed the development of the storm and caused uncertainties in the National Hurricane Center's forecasts, as some models indicated that the depression would dissipate and others that it would become a hurricane. The depression gradually strengthened as it moved to the northwest across the open Atlantic Ocean, becoming Tropical Storm Maria on September 2 and reaching hurricane strength on September 4.

Child tax credit

A child tax credit is a tax credit available in some countries, which depends on the number of dependent children in a family. The credit may depend on other factors as well, such as income level. For example, in the United States only families making less than $110,000 per year may claim the full credit. Similarly, in the United Kingdom the tax credit is only available for families making less than £42,000 per year.

Germany

Germany has a programme called the "Kinderfreibetrag" which functions as a tax credit.

United Kingdom

In the United Kingdom, a family with children and an income below about £32,200 can claim child tax credit on top of child benefit. The tax credit is "non-wastable" – it is paid whether or not the family has a net tax liability – and is paid in or out of work. Higher rates are paid for disabled children. It is integrated with the working tax credit, which also provides support for childcare costs.

All taxable income is tested for the credit, so a couple who both work and have children, will have both salaries taken into account. Tax Credits may be capped which it is claimed could affect the poorest families disproportionately. On Monday 26th October 2015 the House of Lords voted for Labour proposals for financial redress to those affected by reduced entitlements.

Tax credit

A tax credit is a tax incentive which allows certain taxpayers to subtract the amount of the credit from the total they owe the state. It may also be a credit granted in recognition of taxes already paid, or (as in the UK) a form of state support for low earners.

Incentive tax credits may be used to encourage behaviors like investment or parenting. A credit directly reduces tax bills, unlike tax deductions and tax exemptions, which indirectly reduce tax bills by reducing the size of the base (for example, a taxpayer's income or property value) from which the tax bill is calculated.

Most tax credits are nonrefundable tax credits, meaning that they can only be used to the point at which no more taxes are owed. However, some tax credits are refundable tax credits, meaning that if the credit exceeds the amount of taxes owed, the excess is returned to the taxpayer.

Credit for payments

Many systems refer to taxes paid indirectly, such as taxes withheld by payers of income, as credits rather than prepayments. In such cases, the tax credit is invariably refundable. The most common forms of such amounts are payroll withholding of income tax or PAYE, withholding of tax at source on payments to nonresidents, and input credits for value added tax.

A spaceflight typically begins with a rocketlaunch, which provides the initial thrust to overcome the force of gravity and propels the spacecraft from the surface of the Earth. Once in space, the motion of a spacecraft—both when unpropelled and when under propulsion—is covered by the area of study called astrodynamics. Some spacecraft remain in space indefinitely, some disintegrate during atmospheric reentry, and others reach a planetary or lunar surface for landing or impact.

Please Extend the Child Tax Credit for Families in Puerto Rico

Families in Puerto Rico only qualify for the Child Tax Credit if they have three or more children. Several bipartisan efforts are underway to extend this to families with one or two children, a crucial support for working families still recovering from the devastation of Hurricane Maria. This move will benefit more than 350,000 families and 440,000 children. Please take a moment to urge your Members of Congress to support extending the Child Tax Credit.
ACT NOW by signing this alert: https://forumfyi.quorum.us/campaign/13326/

At night, a satellite's view of Earth lights up in bright strings of roads dotted with pearl-like cities and towns as humans take center stage in artificial light. In Puerto Rico, during Hurricane Maria, the entire island's lights went out.
In the days, weeks, and months that followed, research physical scientist Miguel Roman at NASA's Goddard Space FlightCenter in Greenbelt, Maryland, and his colleagues combined NASA's BlackMarble night lights data product from the NASA/NOAA Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership satellite with USGS-NASA Landsat data and Google's OpenStreetMap to develop a neighborhood-scale map of energy use in communities across Puerto Rico as the electricity grid was slowly restored. They then analyzed the relationship between restoration rates in terms of days without electricity and the remoteness of communities from major cities.
Read more: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2018/nasa-provides-new-look-at-puerto-rico-post-hurricane-maria
This video is public domain and along with other supporting visualizations can be downloaded from the Scientific VisualizationStudio at: http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12616
Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Matthew Radcliff
If you liked this video, subscribe to the NASA GoddardYouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/NASAExplorer
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3-D Views of Puerto Rico's Forests After Hurricane Maria

3-D Views of Puerto Rico's Forests After Hurricane Maria

3-D Views of Puerto Rico's Forests After Hurricane Maria

In September 2017, Hurricane Maria struck Puerto Rico head-on as a Category 4 storm with winds topping 155 miles per hour. The storm damaged homes, flooded towns, devastated the island's forests and caused the longest electricity black-out in U.S. history.
Hurricane Maria's lashing rain and winds transformed Puerto Rico's lush tropical rainforest landscape. Research scientistDoug Morton of Goddard was part of the team of NASA researchers who had surveyed Puerto Rico's forests six months before the storm with Goddard's Lidar, Hyperspectral, and Thermal (G-LiHT) AirborneImager, a system designed to study the structure and species composition of Puerto Rican forests. Shooting 600,000 laser pulses per second, G-LiHT produces a 3D view of the forest structure in high resolution. In April 2018, post-Maria , they went back and surveyed the same tracks as in 2017.
Comparing the before and after data, the team found that 40 to 60 percent of the tall trees that formed the canopy of the forest either lost large branches, were snapped in half or were uprooted by strong winds.
"Maria gave the island's forests a haircut," said Morton. "The island lost so many large trees that forests were shortened by one-third. We basically saw 60 years' worth of what we would consider natural treefall disturbances happen in one day."
Read more: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2018/nasa-provides-new-look-at-puerto-rico-post-hurricane-maria
This video is public domain and along with other supporting visualizations can be downloaded from the Scientific VisualizationStudio at: http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12590
Credit: NASA's Goddard Space FlightCenter/Matthew Radcliff
Music: Letting the Past Go, by Ben Hales [PRS], Matt Hales [PRS]
If you liked this video, subscribe to the NASA GoddardYouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/NASAExplorer
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Hurricane Maria Puerto Rico video credit Gilcelia Torres

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Please Extend the Child Tax Credit for Families in Puerto Rico

Families in Puerto Rico only qualify for the Child Tax Credit if they have three or more children. Several bipartisan efforts are underway to extend this to families with one or two children, a crucial support for working families still recovering from the devastation of Hurricane Maria. This move will benefit more than 350,000 families and 440,000 children. Please take a moment to urge your Members of Congress to support extending the Child Tax Credit.
ACT NOW by signing this alert: https://forumfyi.quorum.us/campaign/13326/

At night, a satellite's view of Earth lights up in bright strings of roads dotted with pearl-like cities and towns as humans take center stage in artificial light. In Puerto Rico, during Hurricane Maria, the entire island's lights went out.
In the days, weeks, and months that followed, research physical scientist Miguel Roman at NASA's Goddard Space FlightCenter in Greenbelt, Maryland, and his colleagues combined NASA's BlackMarble night lights data product from the NASA/NOAA Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership satellite with USGS-NASA Landsat data and Google's OpenStreetMap to develop a neighborhood-scale map of energy use in communities across Puerto Rico as the electricity grid was slowly restored. They then analyzed the relationship between restoration rates in terms of days ...

published: 10 Dec 2018

3-D Views of Puerto Rico's Forests After Hurricane Maria

In September 2017, Hurricane Maria struck Puerto Rico head-on as a Category 4 storm with winds topping 155 miles per hour. The storm damaged homes, flooded towns, devastated the island's forests and caused the longest electricity black-out in U.S. history.
Hurricane Maria's lashing rain and winds transformed Puerto Rico's lush tropical rainforest landscape. Research scientistDoug Morton of Goddard was part of the team of NASA researchers who had surveyed Puerto Rico's forests six months before the storm with Goddard's Lidar, Hyperspectral, and Thermal (G-LiHT) AirborneImager, a system designed to study the structure and species composition of Puerto Rican forests. Shooting 600,000 laser pulses per second, G-LiHT produces a 3D view of the forest structure in high resolution. In April 20...

Hurricane Maria Puerto Rico video credit Gilcelia Torres

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Families in Puerto Rico only qualify for the Child Tax Credit if they have three or more children. Several bipartisan efforts are underway to extend this to families with one or two children, a crucial support for working families still recovering from the devastation of Hurricane Maria. This move will benefit more than 350,000 families and 440,000 children. Please take a moment to urge your Members of Congress to support extending the Child Tax Credit.
ACT NOW by signing this alert: https://forumfyi.quorum.us/campaign/13326/

Families in Puerto Rico only qualify for the Child Tax Credit if they have three or more children. Several bipartisan efforts are underway to extend this to families with one or two children, a crucial support for working families still recovering from the devastation of Hurricane Maria. This move will benefit more than 350,000 families and 440,000 children. Please take a moment to urge your Members of Congress to support extending the Child Tax Credit.
ACT NOW by signing this alert: https://forumfyi.quorum.us/campaign/13326/

At night, a satellite's view of Earth lights up in bright strings of roads dotted with pearl-like cities and towns as humans take center stage in artificial lig...

At night, a satellite's view of Earth lights up in bright strings of roads dotted with pearl-like cities and towns as humans take center stage in artificial light. In Puerto Rico, during Hurricane Maria, the entire island's lights went out.
In the days, weeks, and months that followed, research physical scientist Miguel Roman at NASA's Goddard Space FlightCenter in Greenbelt, Maryland, and his colleagues combined NASA's BlackMarble night lights data product from the NASA/NOAA Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership satellite with USGS-NASA Landsat data and Google's OpenStreetMap to develop a neighborhood-scale map of energy use in communities across Puerto Rico as the electricity grid was slowly restored. They then analyzed the relationship between restoration rates in terms of days without electricity and the remoteness of communities from major cities.
Read more: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2018/nasa-provides-new-look-at-puerto-rico-post-hurricane-maria
This video is public domain and along with other supporting visualizations can be downloaded from the Scientific VisualizationStudio at: http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12616
Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Matthew Radcliff
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At night, a satellite's view of Earth lights up in bright strings of roads dotted with pearl-like cities and towns as humans take center stage in artificial light. In Puerto Rico, during Hurricane Maria, the entire island's lights went out.
In the days, weeks, and months that followed, research physical scientist Miguel Roman at NASA's Goddard Space FlightCenter in Greenbelt, Maryland, and his colleagues combined NASA's BlackMarble night lights data product from the NASA/NOAA Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership satellite with USGS-NASA Landsat data and Google's OpenStreetMap to develop a neighborhood-scale map of energy use in communities across Puerto Rico as the electricity grid was slowly restored. They then analyzed the relationship between restoration rates in terms of days without electricity and the remoteness of communities from major cities.
Read more: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2018/nasa-provides-new-look-at-puerto-rico-post-hurricane-maria
This video is public domain and along with other supporting visualizations can be downloaded from the Scientific VisualizationStudio at: http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12616
Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Matthew Radcliff
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In September 2017, Hurricane Maria struck Puerto Rico head-on as a Category 4 storm with winds topping 155 miles per hour. The storm damaged homes, flooded towns, devastated the island's forests and caused the longest electricity black-out in U.S. history.
Hurricane Maria's lashing rain and winds transformed Puerto Rico's lush tropical rainforest landscape. Research scientistDoug Morton of Goddard was part of the team of NASA researchers who had surveyed Puerto Rico's forests six months before the storm with Goddard's Lidar, Hyperspectral, and Thermal (G-LiHT) AirborneImager, a system designed to study the structure and species composition of Puerto Rican forests. Shooting 600,000 laser pulses per second, G-LiHT produces a 3D view of the forest structure in high resolution. In April 2018, post-Maria , they went back and surveyed the same tracks as in 2017.
Comparing the before and after data, the team found that 40 to 60 percent of the tall trees that formed the canopy of the forest either lost large branches, were snapped in half or were uprooted by strong winds.
"Maria gave the island's forests a haircut," said Morton. "The island lost so many large trees that forests were shortened by one-third. We basically saw 60 years' worth of what we would consider natural treefall disturbances happen in one day."
Read more: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2018/nasa-provides-new-look-at-puerto-rico-post-hurricane-maria
This video is public domain and along with other supporting visualizations can be downloaded from the Scientific VisualizationStudio at: http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12590
Credit: NASA's Goddard Space FlightCenter/Matthew Radcliff
Music: Letting the Past Go, by Ben Hales [PRS], Matt Hales [PRS]
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In September 2017, Hurricane Maria struck Puerto Rico head-on as a Category 4 storm with winds topping 155 miles per hour. The storm damaged homes, flooded towns, devastated the island's forests and caused the longest electricity black-out in U.S. history.
Hurricane Maria's lashing rain and winds transformed Puerto Rico's lush tropical rainforest landscape. Research scientistDoug Morton of Goddard was part of the team of NASA researchers who had surveyed Puerto Rico's forests six months before the storm with Goddard's Lidar, Hyperspectral, and Thermal (G-LiHT) AirborneImager, a system designed to study the structure and species composition of Puerto Rican forests. Shooting 600,000 laser pulses per second, G-LiHT produces a 3D view of the forest structure in high resolution. In April 2018, post-Maria , they went back and surveyed the same tracks as in 2017.
Comparing the before and after data, the team found that 40 to 60 percent of the tall trees that formed the canopy of the forest either lost large branches, were snapped in half or were uprooted by strong winds.
"Maria gave the island's forests a haircut," said Morton. "The island lost so many large trees that forests were shortened by one-third. We basically saw 60 years' worth of what we would consider natural treefall disturbances happen in one day."
Read more: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2018/nasa-provides-new-look-at-puerto-rico-post-hurricane-maria
This video is public domain and along with other supporting visualizations can be downloaded from the Scientific VisualizationStudio at: http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12590
Credit: NASA's Goddard Space FlightCenter/Matthew Radcliff
Music: Letting the Past Go, by Ben Hales [PRS], Matt Hales [PRS]
If you liked this video, subscribe to the NASA GoddardYouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/NASAExplorer
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#trevandchels #puertorico #sanjuan

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Orlando, FL 32856-8677
Thanks for watching guys! Also, thanks to Royal Caribbean for taking care of a couple of excursions while we were on the trip!
#trevandchels #puertorico #sanjuan

Please Extend the Child Tax Credit for Families in Puerto Rico

Families in Puerto Rico only qualify for the Child Tax Credit if they have three or more children. Several bipartisan efforts are underway to extend this to families with one or two children, a crucial support for working families still recovering from the devastation of Hurricane Maria. This move will benefit more than 350,000 families and 440,000 children. Please take a moment to urge your Members of Congress to support extending the Child Tax Credit.
ACT NOW by signing this alert: https://forumfyi.quorum.us/campaign/13326/

At night, a satellite's view of Earth lights up in bright strings of roads dotted with pearl-like cities and towns as humans take center stage in artificial light. In Puerto Rico, during Hurricane Maria, the entire island's lights went out.
In the days, weeks, and months that followed, research physical scientist Miguel Roman at NASA's Goddard Space FlightCenter in Greenbelt, Maryland, and his colleagues combined NASA's BlackMarble night lights data product from the NASA/NOAA Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership satellite with USGS-NASA Landsat data and Google's OpenStreetMap to develop a neighborhood-scale map of energy use in communities across Puerto Rico as the electricity grid was slowly restored. They then analyzed the relationship between restoration rates in terms of days without electricity and the remoteness of communities from major cities.
Read more: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2018/nasa-provides-new-look-at-puerto-rico-post-hurricane-maria
This video is public domain and along with other supporting visualizations can be downloaded from the Scientific VisualizationStudio at: http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12616
Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Matthew Radcliff
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3-D Views of Puerto Rico's Forests After Hurricane Maria

In September 2017, Hurricane Maria struck Puerto Rico head-on as a Category 4 storm with winds topping 155 miles per hour. The storm damaged homes, flooded towns, devastated the island's forests and caused the longest electricity black-out in U.S. history.
Hurricane Maria's lashing rain and winds transformed Puerto Rico's lush tropical rainforest landscape. Research scientistDoug Morton of Goddard was part of the team of NASA researchers who had surveyed Puerto Rico's forests six months before the storm with Goddard's Lidar, Hyperspectral, and Thermal (G-LiHT) AirborneImager, a system designed to study the structure and species composition of Puerto Rican forests. Shooting 600,000 laser pulses per second, G-LiHT produces a 3D view of the forest structure in high resolution. In April 2018, post-Maria , they went back and surveyed the same tracks as in 2017.
Comparing the before and after data, the team found that 40 to 60 percent of the tall trees that formed the canopy of the forest either lost large branches, were snapped in half or were uprooted by strong winds.
"Maria gave the island's forests a haircut," said Morton. "The island lost so many large trees that forests were shortened by one-third. We basically saw 60 years' worth of what we would consider natural treefall disturbances happen in one day."
Read more: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2018/nasa-provides-new-look-at-puerto-rico-post-hurricane-maria
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Credit: NASA's Goddard Space FlightCenter/Matthew Radcliff
Music: Letting the Past Go, by Ben Hales [PRS], Matt Hales [PRS]
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FIRST TIME VISITING PUERTO RICO

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Puerto Rico

Puerto Rico (English /ˌpɔːrtəˈriːkoʊ/ or /ˌpwɛərtəˈriːkoʊ/;Spanish:[ˈpweɾto ˈriko], locally also[ˈpwelto ˈχiko; ˈʀ̥iko]), officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico (Spanish:Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, literally the "Free Associated State of Puerto Rico"), is a United Statesterritory located in the northeastern Caribbean. Puerto Rico is an archipelago that includes the main island of Puerto Rico and a number of smaller islands. The capital and largest city is San Juan. The territory does not observe daylight saving time, and its official languages are Spanish, which is predominant, and English. The island's population is approximately 3.4 million.

Puerto Rico's rich history, tropical climate, diverse natural scenery, renowned traditional cuisine and attractive tax incentives make it a popular destination for visitors from around the world. Its location in the Caribbean, combined with centuries of colonization and subsequent migration, has made Puerto Rican culture a distinct melting pot of Amerindian, Spanish, African, and North American influences.